thieving parasitic squat leeches trash rampART social centre

Over the week­end one of the ram­pART col­lec­tive caught friends of the neigh­bor­ing squat­ters steal­ing the lead of the roof.

Over the week­end one of the ram­pART col­lec­tive caught friends of the neigh­bor­ing squat­ters steal­ing the lead of the roof. Con­front­ed, they jus­ti­fied their action by say­ing that the place was going to be evict­ed in a week any­way. Of course that’s not actu­al­ly true, there is no date yet for an evic­tion and who’s is to say that an evic­tion attempt would suc­ceed. It could have been months before the ram­pART was final­ly closed.

Now there is water piss­ing through the ram­pART bring­ing the ceil­ing down. Not just in the social cen­tre but also the hous­es in the block as well, includ­ing the build­ing used by a local accoun­tant as his office. Peo­ple per­son­al pos­ses­sions have been trashed and the build­ings made almost unin­hab­it­able for the sake of under one hun­dred pounds worths of lead.

The scum who did it might try to jus­ti­fy it by say­ing that it’s the devel­op­ers that pay but that’s not real­ly the case. The build­ing are cur­rent­ly occu­pied and even when evict­ed they weren’t going to be demol­ished. Now that water is pour­ing in the build­ing would quick­ly fall into total dis­re­pair and allow the own­ers to jus­ti­fy demo­li­tion which is what they’d real­ly pre­fer to do.

So, for the sake of a quick buck, these par­a­sites have basi­cal­ly has­tened the end of the social cen­tre and forced those liv­ing in the hous­es to move out ahead of threats from bailiffs. This incred­i­bly anti-social behav­ior is sad­ly not untyp­i­cal.

The St Bart’s squat near All Saints DLR was orig­i­nal­ly squat­ted as a con­ver­gence cen­tre for the Dis­arm DSEi mobil­i­sa­tion and then was used as a res­i­den­tial squat. Before the place was evict­ed almost two years lat­er, all the cop­per and lead was removed and weighed in. The build­ing, which was a coun­cil owned adult edu­ca­tion cen­tre, was left exposed to the weath­er and made total unsuit­able for reuse when it was con­sid­ered for the next DSEi con­ver­gence. Repairs would cost a for­tune so the coun­cil will now nev­er put it back into social use, they’ll no doubt just let it rot for a few years and then sell it on as land for rede­vel­op­ment.

thanks a bunch you thiev­ing scum